Welcome to Dream, Draw Create! This blog features art projects for children. These projects have been used in my classes. My lessons allow children to learn about all the elements and principles of art while striving to introduce them to many genres of art.

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Wild about Romero Britto, by artists in Grades 5 & 6

I saw this project over at We Heart Art, http://ourartlately.blogspot.com/2012/10/britto-pumpkins.html and knew I just had to try it for myself. The students have been working for two weeks on these colorful paintings so I thought I'd share some of the results thus far. We've been doing a lot of color mixing and I'm happy to say the students really seem confident in their new found ability to understand color theory. In particular mixing complementary colors. We spoke about using flat color onto which we would later add pattern. The addition of the black outlining is really stunning. I hope you too will be as wild about Romero as we are!

About Me

I have been teaching art for well over 20 years now and have enjoyed every minute of it. Mostly I like to call myself an elementary art teacher but I also teach Primary as well as Middle School students. I teach at Woodland Hill Montessori School which is in upstate New York. I hope my blog inspires you as much as I am inspired by all the wonderful art ed. bloggers out there!